This website is for all Nanumeans, the Children of Tefolaha, ga Tama a Tefolaha; those whose home, or spiritual homeland, is Namea, Nameana, Seilona, Lakena, Hahake, Hauma......the lands of Pai and Vau: Nanumea.

These pages are a place to share the wealth of information that has become available about our island society over the past hundred and fifty years. The content available here will be added to regularly. as time goes on.

Please email us if you have materials you'd like to contribute to this site -- pictures, logo, poto, tala, stories, a poem or anything else.

You can contact us here or by using the link on this page and throughout the site. Thanks!

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Te Po o Tefolaha is celebrated by Nanumeanseach JanuaryAll Night Faatele in the Ahiga
January 1984

Uafu at Nanumea
with Vakamutu behind
Photo taken early 1984

NANUMEA

Photo: NASA image ISS004-E-13351Northernmost of the 9 atolls and reef islands of the nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea is located in the Central Pacific near the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line (at 5.68 South lattitude, 176.70 East Longitude).